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Facebook Adds Delete Account Option
roseability writes "Facebook have quietly added the ability to delete you account. 'Deactivate Account', under Account Setting, has become 'Deactivate or Delete Account', and when checked it purports to permanently delete your account and all information you have shared. Facebook is actually willing to erase your data permanently? They must be counting on very few people doing so." Mixed reports on this: perhaps this is a limited test?
The TOS say they can keep it, perhaps this just deletes your login and deactivates your account
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Even if it's truly deleted, I'll bet the data is out there in an archive somewhere.
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Our one friend who killed herself's account. That would be nice. Having her profile continually show up with the "you haven't talked to X in a while send them a message and reconnect with them" box. Doesn't actually make facebook win any sensitivity awards in my book.
The post sounds kind of troll-ish to me. Why is this so shocking? Pretty much every internet club out there gives you the ability to delete your account. Why would Facebook be the exception? Maybe I'm missing something. It's just seems normal that if you create an account you have the ability to delete it if you want to.
Please tell me how to delete my Slashdot account. Bonus points for telling me how I can delete the data including every post I've made.
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Connection to me and vice versa can be done using traditional means especially email.
Oh the nativity of youth. When email becomes a traditional communication I know I'm getting old.
where is slashdot's delete account button?
Do you even lift?
These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.
There is absolutely nothing you would gain from deleting a slashdot account.
Your posts would not be deleted, as no other post is ever deleted without a grounded Cease&Desist or similar legal reason, your journal is public info as well. The only removable thing is your user description, which can be replaced with an empty string at a whim.
Facebook accounts, on the other hand, nearly by definition contain slews of personal data.
It's like a public mailing list vs private mail.
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you are old enough to have avoided the facebook boondoggle in the first place
so its a wash
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The problem is that you need an account to keep tabs on what other people are posting about you. For example, if someone tags you in a photo but you don't have an account you can't delete the tag, or even know it is there if their photos are not public.
My solution is to create an account in your name but fill it with obvious fabrications. My date of birth is listed as 01/01/1901 and I don't have a profile photo. People I know still respond to friend requests so I can keep an eye on them and if anyone tries to tag me I hear about it.
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You may not be 12, but it sounds like your friends act like they are, and some of your family.
I have plenty of real friends who I ignore on FB, and I tell them about it. They don't mind because they're my friends. I have real life friends and family who I won't friend on FB, but I tell them why, and it doesn't affect our relationship. I hide everyone's feed that updates 3 times a day, and those whose posts are trivial daily activities ("Driving home," "Eating dinner with wife and kids," etc,) or that I just don't want a daily/weekly update about. I don't "like" anything since they changed the info section into mindless lists. I don't even "like" the band I play in. I block my status updates from some. I ignore posts to my wall frequently, and delete everyone else's posts to my wall from time to time. None of this has affected any of my real life relationships.
It's just facebook, it doesn't really matter. If you keep that attitude, people will accept it. If they can't or won't, they probably aren't the kind of person you'd want as a friend. Or at least that I'd want as a friend.
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Where is the -1, Idiot moderation option? You didn't consent to, you insisted upon divorce (as evidenced by your claim that you filed). Being married or not actually has legal consequences for people outside your bedroom and living room and thus is not at all a private matter.
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Thankfully, Rob Malda, along with his handlers and peons, have over the years earned my trust that they will treat my non-public data with a reasonable amount of respect. When the day comes that I feel like my trust has the potential to be violated, I want a button that says "Delete this account and everything associated with it," and I want it to work, at least within the confines of Slashdot.
Especially if some social networking site was to buy Slashdot and then helpfully combine your profiles based on matching email addresses.
While I understand your desire, I disagree with it a little. Your profile being deleted, that makes sense. If you want it gone then it should, as you put it, be nuked. But the posts you make should remain on the site. Maybe with a "by poster deleted" or something of that effect, but not removed. Several times a day people link to past stories or comments on this site as references. If I were to read a conversation someone linked to and half the comments, or even one just really important one, were missing... it would throw off the entire citation. Slashdot postings provide a history at the very least of the viewpoint of the slashdot community. If a researcher really felt the need he could pull up past comments and do research on the trend in nerd rage or something equally bizarre. Detaching your name from the comments, Sure. Removing them from the community at large? No. You gave them to us willingly, we're not giving them back.